Jim Moran, a Democratic congressman from Virginia thinks the ad is disrespectful and should be removed. Obama has no respect for America or freedom or for that matter, anyone that voted for him. He is doing his best to create a Marxist society and Jim Moran obviously agrees with Obama. Remove the ad he says. Isn’t that saying remove freedom of speech?
The sad thing is the fact that republicans aren’t any better. This country is in such a bad mess for 2 reasons: Democrats & Republicans. I am not a religious person but, MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US!

I’ve lived in DC for over 40 years and can’t recall any ads this disrespectful.  Can you name one?

The advertisements on WMATA’s buses, train stations, and bus stops have allowed political content for as long as I’ve been in the DC area (about 15 years). I’ve seen numerous ads that many would have considered disrespectful of Presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton. Other political ads were simply distasteful or offensive (usually, these are placed by anti-gay or anti-choice groups). Given the political persuasion of most residents of the metropolitan area, if these fools want to throw their money away, I say let them.

Very interesting. Something tells me that if the subject of the “Go to hell” ad had been e.g. Pope Ratzinger, or even a Governor of a state (albeit not applicable in D.C.), concerns about “decorum” and “respect for the office” and general offense taken by even a few riders would’ve gotten the ad pulled.

And the objection stands: Right-wingers were fulminating about President Obama and the destruction of the U.S. etc. when he was FIRST inaugurated. None of these bilious, irrational, personally insulting ads/media diatribes/statements are really political statements directed specifically at a policy. They are ad hominem attacks of a sort the right-wing would never tolerate against their own.